Notepad is a very basic text-editing program that comes as an included application on Windows operating systems. Notepad is great for writing short documents that you want to save in plain text.
Notepad has some additional features to take advantage of as well. However, Notepad is just a text editor, so images are not compatible. If the file contains special formatting or is not a plaintext file, it cannot be read in Microsoft Notepad.
2.1 Method 1: Open it via context menu.
Step 1: Right-click blank area, point at New in the menu and select Text Document from the sub-list.
Step 2: Double-tap the new text document
2.2 Method 2: Turn it on in Start Menu.
You can find and open Notepad in the Windows 10 Start Menu. Click Start, scroll down the list of apps, and open the Windows Accessories folder. There you find the Notepad shortcut.
In Windows 8.1 open the Apps view from the Start screen by clicking or tapping the down-arrow from the bottom-left corner. Scroll to the right until you see the Windows Accessories list where Notepad is located.
In Windows 7, open the Start Menu, click All programs and open the Accessories folder where the Notepad shortcut is located.
The search in Windows is fast and easy. The only thing that you need to remember is the name of the tool: Notepad. In Windows 10, click or tap the search field on your taskbar, type “notepad” in it, and click or tap the result with the same name.
In Windows 8.1 start typing “notepad” on the Start screen. The typing activates the search function, and in the results that appear click or tap Notepad.
In Windows 7, open the Start Menu and then type “notepad” in the search field. In the list of results, click on Notepad.
Press Win + R on the keyboard to open the Run window. In the Open field type “notepad” and press Enter on the keyboard or click OK.
Start Command Prompt, type notepad.exe and press Enter.
Access Windows PowerShell, input notepad and tap Enter.
You can open Notepad using the Task Manager. Launch Task Manager (a quick way is by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + ESC). In Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, you can get the compact view of the Task Manager. In this case, press first More details in the bottom left corner of the Task Manager window.
In the File Menu, click or tap “Run new task” in Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 or “New Task (Run…)” in Windows 7. In the “Create new task” window that appears, type “notepad” in the Open field and press ENTER or press the button OK.
The Notepad executable file is found in the System32 subfolder of the Windows folder. You need to identify the file notepad.exe and then double-click or double-tap on it.
The Notepad executable file is found in the System32 subfolder of the Windows folder. You need to identify the file notepad.exe and then double-click or double-tap on it.
Method 1:
Open Notepad and type the text you want in the file. Once done, save the file by clicking File and then Save. When saving the file, make sure the file is saved with a ".txt" extension.
Method 2:
On the Windows desktop or in any folder, right-click an empty spot. In the pop-up menu, select New and then Text Document. After this is done, a file should appear named "New Text Document". Double-click this file to open the text document, or rename the file to the name of your choice and then open the file.
To see what the File Menu of Notepad serves you, click on it. You will notice options like New, Open, Save, Save As, Page Setup and Print along with their keyboard shortcuts of few listed there. There is no rocket science like a difficult thing to understand. You all must be very well aware of the functioning of the options.
The Save As option needs to be understood very well. Whenever you have to open any plain file, Windows, by default open it in a .txt extension associated with Notepad. So if you double hit on it, it will automatically open up in a Notepad.
But Notepad also allows you to create HTML files. For this, you need to turn on the Word Wrap (it is covered in the latter part of this article) and when your write up is finished go to save your document, click on Save As.
Then provide a name for your work and save it using the.htm or .html extension
The Save As option can also be used if you wish to encode a file in order to match with a certain character set.
The Save As option can also be used if you wish to encode a file in order to match with a certain character set.
Then in the Save As window, click on the Encoding drop-down menu and select the correct encoding. It would be quite difficult to find the exact one, but you can go with the Unicode as it is termed as the safest.
The Page Setup options are very limited and easy to understand. The Paper section allows you to set the size of the paper and the Source of it in your printer. In the orientation section, you can choose either the Portrait or the Landscape mode.
The text in the Header field is the name of the file, which is set by default. And the text displayed in the Footer field is the page number. In case you don’t wish to have these pieces of stuff printed, you can delete them.
Click on the File menu and then select the Print option from the dropdown. This will bring you to a separate window where you can select the printer and options you would like, and click print. To change the settings that determines how your printed document will look, click the File menu, and then click Page Setup:
- To change the paper size, tap or click a size in the Size list.
- To change the paper source, tap or click a tray name or a feeder in the Source list.
- To print the file vertically, click Portrait; to print the file horizontally, click Landscape.
- To change the margins, enter a width in any of the Margins boxes.
Notepad includes a header by default, which is the name of the document and the date it was printed. The default footer text is the page number. You can remove these defaults by selecting the Header and Footer option from the File menu on the menu bar and deleting the codes inside.
All header and footer setting must be entered manually each time you want to print a document. These settings cannot be saved. To change headers and footers, choose Page Setup from the File menu and enter the desired command(s) in the Header and Footer text boxes. The following is a short list of header and footer commands :
- &l Left-align the characters that follow
- &c Center the characters that follow
- &r Right-align the characters that follow
- &d Print the current date
- &t Print the current time
- &f Print the name of the document
- &p Print the page number
Leaving the Header or Footer text box empty will result in no header footer on your printed document.
You can insert words into the Header and Footer text box and they will print in their appropriate position. Letters after the "&" sign do not need to be capitalized.
In Notepad, your header is centered, regardless of the formatting codes you use, if the formatting code is not the first item in the Header text box. For example, to align a title to the left side of the page, use &lTitle text.
